When the professor is sitting in his office, with the door closed, and there’s another person in there wearing a suit and a name-tag and holding lots of promotional materials from the college? That’s NOT a good time to get another faculty member to open the door and see if he’s in there. You have a 1430 appointment for getting a tutor you say? Come at 1430.
I will post the grades as soon as I run the sheets through the scantron. Two of your fellow distance learners have not sent their tests back, and I can’t tell you what the scores or the curves are until they do so. Twenty-five phone calls to my office won’t hurry things along, either.
There are graduate and undergraduate classes in this building as well as medical classes. Rooms are booked in advance, sometimes for months. If you leave your stuff in my classroom, you cannot get to it until class ends. It will only be an hour. And I want to point out that you are an IDIOT for leaving your cell phone in my classroom where it can ring. Next time you do that, I’m calling the weather and date phone line. In Tokyo.
That is all.
William The Coroner's Forensic Files 
I Should Know Better Than
To read the editorial section of the Cleveland paper. If the paid writers don’t piss me off, the letters to the editor will raise my blood pressure.
Today, we had a woman writing to complain about the “castle doctrine”. That new law strengthening the right of Ohioans to have firearms in their homes (and occasionally automobiles). This woman is concerned that having the ability to defend themselves will cause Ohioans–wait for it–to feel bad.
Guns are so powerful and evil that only trained police officers can be trusted to use them without suffering devastating psychological trauma. Because, you know, people might DIE.
People will die. Everyone will die. Even I will die, though I know that’s the last thing I’m going to do.
Think about it.
I respect her desire not to use or carry a firearm. I do not respect her thinking, nor will I allow her fears to strip me of my constitutional rights because she (or I might feel bad). I work with and around armed individuals for a significant portion of the day. The government paycheck isn’t magic, there are bozos with badges as well as bozos without badges. It is a fundamental principle not to restrict people’s actions because of what they might do. It is perfectly permissible to restrict people’s actions on the basis of what they have done, but what they might do? Mr. Orwell, what was the definition of thoughtcrime again?
And if you start restricting the rights of others to make people feel better, to prevent them from taking actions because you, the collective you know better, where do you stop? Let’s get rid of automobiles, they’re dangerous, discourage walking, pollute, and can be used by drunk drivers. Let’s go and control people’s sexual expression, because we know better. Let’s make sure everyone goes to bed at ten pm, and gets up at seven, and has a good breakfast, and calls their mommy promptly.
Or we can mind our own business, have people act like adults, and take responsiblity for their own actions. Their OWN actions. I can’t handle other people’s actions.